Team SA perform at Paralympics

With the results of 2 more days of competition and a few more potential gold medals still outstanding, South Africa’s Paralympic team has already surpassed their gold medal performances of the previous three Games (see box below) – and is currently ranked #6 on the medal table. Rankings are allocated according to gold medals won, then silver and lastly bronze.

	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
2008	19	2	5	26	6
2004	15	13	7	35	13
2000	13	12	13	38	13
1996	10	8	10	28	15

 

This is a remarkable performance by South Africa’s paralympic team in Beijing as China’s gold medal chase leaves fewer golds for the other countries to share. China already have 83 gold medals – twenty more than the total number of gold won by them in 2004 and Australia in 2000. Britain has retained their second position.

Top 6 countries (number of gold medals won)

2008	2004	2000	1996
China (83)	China (63)	Australia (63)	US (47)
Britain (41)	Britain (35)	Britain (41)	Australia (42)
US (33)	Canada (28)	Canada (38)	Germany (40)
Ukraine (23)	US (27)	Spain (38)	Britain (39)
Australia (20)	Australia (26)	US (36)	Spain (39)
South Africa (19)	Ukraine (24)	China (34)	France (35)
	South Africa (15)	South Africa (13)	South Africa (10)